Self-registering measuring-machine for cloth.



Nb.72,333. PATLENTED MAY19, -1903.

4 W. M. THOMPSON.

SELF REGISTERING MEASURING MACHINE FOR CLOTH. APPLICATION FILED JAN.- a, 1903.

no MODEL,

UNITED STATES Patented May 19, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

SELF-REGISTERING MEASURING- MACHINE FOR CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 728,333, dated May 19, I903. a

h Application filed January 8, 1963. Serial No. 138,310. (No model.)

To all whom it h Be it kn own that 1, WILLIAM M. THOMPSON,

a citizen of the United States, residing at- Charlotte Court-House, in the county of Charlotte and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Self-Registering Measuring- Machine for Cloth, of which the following is; w

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a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for measuring wire, tape,cloth, and other materials which are usually formed in long webs or threads,. and it is particularly concerned with machines usedin retai'ltrade for measuring cloth when sold by the yard.

The objects of my improvement are, first,

to provide a machine of simple constrnction" which will not be readily put out of order in use, and, further, to cheapen the cost of such. machines, so that they willbe in demand for use in stores doing onlya comparatively small trade.

The preferred form of my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafterfully described and claimed, and shown in the accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a View in perspective of my ma chine assembled ready for use. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective'of the supporting-frame for the two measuring cylinders or rolls with the spring for holding the rolls in operative engagement with the cloth attached thereto. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the spring for pressing the rolls into contact with the cloth or other material and a device for separating the rolls by pulling against the tension of the spring.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, A represents the frame in which the measuring-rolls are supported. B represents the baseflof said frame, which'is secured to the counter by-means of straps g, having screws passing therethrough, or in any other preferred manner.

C represents the end of the supportingframe, to which the registering mechanism is secured. j v r, I D represents the top of the supportingframe, to which is secured the U-shaped spring J, which is pierced" near each endito afiord bearings for the axle of the upper measuring-roller E.

a a represent slots in the frame A, through tiring-roller E passes. c g

0. represents openings in the supporting- F is journaled.

through the top ofthe frame Aand secured c-is a handle secured. to the bailabove mentionedto facilitate grasping the same.

the frame A and containing the operating parts of the registering apparatus, whose dials d are shown upon one side of the casing.

paratus" maybe of any approved form and forms no part of my invention. Hence more detailed description is regarded as unnecessary.

securely'mounted upon the counter in the manner shown in the drawings or by means of clamping mechanism of any preferred form. Then the upper measuring-roller E is lifted against the tension of the spring J by means to be measured is now introduced between the measuring-rollers, so that the point from which the measurement is to be made-lies be tween them, and the spring J'is'then released, causing the upper roller E to descend upon the cloth and'press it down upon the roller F. The machine and cloth are now in posiis performed automatically by the machine as the cloth is drawn forward between the measuring-rollers E and .F. It is of course understood that at the beginning of the operation the measuring-dials are set at zero, and the totalamount of cloth which 'has passed between the measuring-rollers can be read ofi directly from the dials at any subsequent time.

I am aware that machines for measuring cloth and similar materials by means of a pair of measuring rollers or cylinders. between which the cloth passes and whichengage frictionally therewith as it is drawn between them are already known in the art. Hence I do not desire to claim, broadly, as myinvention a machine of this type.

which the supporting-axle of the upper meas- I t I frame A, in which the axle of the lower roller b I) represent the ends of a bail passing G is a casing attached to the closed end'o f I 'The means for operating this registering ap- In using my invention the machine is first out of engagement with the lower rollerF of the bail b b and its handle 0. The cloth tion tobegin the measuring operation, which What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination in a machine of the class described of a pair of measuring-cylinders rotatably mounted in a suitable frame, one of said cylinders being pressed toward the other by means of a U-shaped spring through the ends of which the supporting-axis of said roller passes, said spring having attached thereto a bail or handle whereby said spring-pressed roller may be drawn away from its fellow against the tension of the spring.

2. The combination in a machine of the class described, of a supporting-frame, a pair of measuring-rollers mounted in said frame,

one of said rollers being susceptible of vertical movement in the frame, a U-shaped spring fastened at its middle to said frame and having openings in the end which form bearings for the axis of one of said rollers, and a bail having its ends attached to said spring and means for drawing the spring-supported roller away from its fellow.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM M. THOMPSON.

Witnesses:

W. M00. MILLER, JOHN R. HUTOHESON. 

